Julie's Blog

From Keep it Real in SacramentoSomething must be happening out there in Sacramento real estate land.  Yesterday I was working with buyers who are looking to upgrade their home in the Roseville area.  Two of the homes the wife was interested in seeing had been on the market for a long time, one th...

I am sure I am not the only one this morning struggling to get started after a long weekend.  As you may know from my blog post yesterday at "Keep it Real in Sacramento" , we spent the weekend in Southern California and enjoyed three wonderfully warm days in Hollywood and at Universal Studios.Sin...

From my "Keep it Real in Sacramento" blog - January 17, 2008I am particularly pleased to welcome Kara Green as MagnumOne Realty's newest agent.  Kara was born and raised here in the Sacramento area and after a number of years living in Canada moved back home.  I was fortunate to represent Kara an...

I recently published an article, "Waiting for Reward" about some analysts 2008 predictions on the real estate market.  I reprinted it as my weekly column on our local online newspaper, Rocklin & Roseville Today.  One of the more popular and well done "bubble blogs" in the Sacramento area, Sacrame...

The real estate market here in Sacramento is quiet on the surface, there are not going to be enough transactions in 2008 to support the current population of agents, but is teaming with activity not being tracked.  Many of the pundits who are predicting another year of depreciating values would b...

Over at MagnumOne Realty, our agent Kelly Baker listed a home in Lincoln last week.  Because it have been on the market for some time with another agent and it is a short sale we made a decision to price it very aggressively since the seller needs to be done with the property and the bank had con...

I have not had time to come up for air let alone keep my blogs current.  Nice to see some buyers back in the Sacramento market and we have added some new listings and best yet two new agents to our team.  Dealing with all that and then my previously reliable assistant who has been sick off and on...

This past year I started what I call my reality real estate series, "MyForSaleSign."  It is a combination of articles and blog posts that track a transaction as it happens.  It is designed to be entertaining as well as informative.  I probably started off with too big a story as I attempted to fo...

This morning I was rudely rousted from bed by a huge winter storm hitting the Sacramento area.  The winds are so fierce that we have already lost two trees in our yards.  I can see this is a day to stay inside and hope the wind settles down a bit.  The fun part of my morning was to see so many ni...

Well, it is a new year and time for some new activities.  I have maintained a blog, "Keep it Real in Sacramento" on my http://www.jalone.com/ website for several years.  It has been fun writing about the real estate industry, the local market in Sacramento and a host of other topics that interest...